On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:41:54 -0800 (PST), "David Barak" <thegameiam@yahoo.com> said:
--- Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
Simple. You give the consumer the ability to fiddle with the QoS settings on the provider's edge router interface. After all, they are paying for the access link.
eeek! I assume you mean "tell the customer what DSCP/whatever settings you honor, and let them do the marking" right? The thought of letting customers actually make changes to my edge routers would keep me up at night...
To let customers decide priorities in your backbone is a bad idea, but I don't think that's the issue here. Assuming the customer's link to the network to be the primary bottleneck; there's nothing wrong with giving customers the ability to prioritise traffic on their link, provided that your access-equipment is able to handle queueing etc (given fool-proof mechanisms that enable self-service and keep your NOC out of the loop of course;). //per -- Per Heldal heldal@eml.cc